As the digital economy continues to grow and rapidly evolve, global
industry body, TM
Forum, has grown to encompass some of the world's largest companies
in the services sector, including Bank of America, Cogeco, DIRECTV,
Network Rail, Salesforce.com (News - Alert), VMwareand Visa, among others. With
a strong focus on industry collaboration and a mission to enable an open
and vibrant digital economy, TM Forum (News - Alert) is attracting a new breed of
members as the communications value chain evolves to encompass a wide
range of services, including cloud, eHealth, M2M, smart grid, mobile
banking and more.

Today, TM Forum's members collaborate through increasingly agile and
fast-track approaches to solve some of the industry's most pressing
issues in cyber security, revenue assurance, customer experience
management, partnership management, among others. TM Forum provides
members with the necessary solutions to innovate, accelerate and
optimize their services for the future, including access to leading
industry research; opportunities to participate in TM Forum's Catalyst
projects; multi-cloud management tools; and TM Forum's widely
implemented Frameworxsuite of

In addition, a recent Heavy
Reading Insider Report entitled "Frameworx Proves Valuable Tool for
Implementing SOA," notes that Frameworx will increase the speed of
rolling out new services. "Frameworx is identified by its users as a
substantial benefit in three key areas: creating a common frame of
reference both internally and externally; simplifying the IT
architecture; and reducing costs and risks," according to Denise Culver,
research analyst, Heavy Reading Insider. "Such benefits underscore why
Frameworx continues to gain in popularity, especially for service
providers and vendors looking to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of service delivery."

"TM Forum's members contribute a wealth of knowledge and experience in
technology, strategy and business development to the organization which
ultimately helps our membership base to succeed in the fast-paced,
highly competitive digital world we are facing today," said Keith
Willetts, chairman, TM Forum. "When a company becomes a member of the TM
Forum, it becomes part of a 85,000 strong community of individuals,
working together to better the industry and provide the proven
methodology and tools to give businesses the agility they need to launch
new services, reduce cost and risk, and improve market share."

With over 900 member companies, TM Forum is the largest global trade
association focused on bringing together the digital ecosystem,
including communication service providers, digital service providers and
enterprises, with the goal of enabling an open digital world. The Forum
delivers a wealth of knowledge and practical tools, including unique
research, best practices and standards. Our members collaborate to
rapidly solve business issues in critical areas, such as business
process optimization, big data analytics, cloud management, customer
experience management and security.

The Forum has four key roles-to Inform, Innovate, Accelerate and
Optimize-and provides a neutral and open platform for collaboration
between service providers, enterprises and their suppliers to overcome
the barriers to an open digital economy. For more information about TM
Forum, visit www.tmforum.org